House members pass the Paycheck Fairness Act to help bridge the gender pay gap
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Photo (c) Olivier Le Moal - Getty ImagesThe U.S. House of Representatives passed an overhaul of existing labor laws on Thursday. If enacted as written, the new bill the Paycheck Fairness Act should provide “more effective remedies to victims of discrimination in the payment of wages on the basis of sex, and for other purposes.”
The legislation certainly has a champion in President Biden. He said the bill is “more than just an economic imperative it’s a moral imperative as well.”
Pelosi Remarks at Press Conference Ahead of Passage of the Paycheck Fairness Act
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Floor Speech in Support of H R 7, the Paycheck Fairness Act
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Mike is a senior advisor for Government Relations at The Heritage Foundation. Olympic gold medalist and two-time World Cup champion soccer player Megan Rapinoe delivers remarks in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on March 24, 2021 in Washington, D.C. Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images
Key Takeaways
She and the woke left want all women’s professional sports (not just the Olympics) salaries to be artificially inflated to match the men’s.
There is no barrier to playing soccer on sex grounds, let alone a justification for the White House to make it its priority to increase access.
This one is a lot simpler than politicians care to admit: women’s professional soccer isn’t profitable because there aren’t many people who want to watch it.
Outlook for This Week in the Nation’s Capital
Congress. The House and Senate are back in session this week. The House is set to consider the Paycheck Fairness Act this week (H.R. 7), which would amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to promote equal pay for men and women performing the same job, and they will also consider the Senate’s amendment on the bill to extend the current moratorium on the Medicare sequester (H.R. 1868). Outside of the bills scheduled for floor action, Democrats will continue working on the FY22 appropriations process and President Joe Biden’s infrastructure package, which the House hopes to pass by July 4th.